Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove Vincent and Alan review recent findings on the association of the retrovirus XMRV with ME/CFS, reassortment of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in swine, and where influenza viruses travel in the off-season. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download TWiV #89 (56 MB .mp3, 78 minutes) Subscribe to TWiV [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Saul Silverstein Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Saul Silverstein revisit an ebolavirus needlestick accident, and discuss the role of TLR3 in formation of Negri bodies, a New England college closed by norovirus gastroenteritis, hand, foot, and mouth disease outbreak in China, and the exit of herpes simplex virus [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Luis Villarreal Vincent, Alan, and Luis talk about rabies in Viet Nam and Angola, needle-stick infections with ebolavirus and West Nile virus, and viral evolution. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Links for this episode: Furious rabies after an atypical exposure Rabies outbreak in Angola Ebolavirus needle stick [...]